The other day I was thinking, and realized that just in the past few months I have
- Spoken Italian with people from Japan and Arabic with someone from Italy
- crossed the border from Switzerland to France to eat Chinese food with a Vietnamese couple and an Italian nun
- visited the Amsterdam office of an American based software company to meet my wonderful Mexican hosts
- attended Catholic masses in French, Italian, Dutch/Spanish, Arabic/Bari, and English on 3 different continents.
- For beer, learned my Mexican friend drinks only Guinness and my Italian friend, almodt exclusively Corona
- eaten Indian food in Paris, tapas in Geneva, Doner kebab in the netherlands and actually been served Swiss steaks in Switzerland
- Gotten really emotionally involved in Nigerian soap operas . . . and found the plot lines having the same compelling elements of Shakespearean plays (star-crossed lovers, royal marriages, competitions, absurd tragedies). The dialogue, however, fails to match up.
- resently mattress comes from Uganda. My sheets. . . not sure where they were made, but they feature a random Japanese anime pattern.
Anyway, thought it would be fun to make a list like this . . . Altogether, feels a bit crazy, awesome, and overwhelming if you consider it all too closely.
What are some of your random global mishmash experiences? Feel free to share them in comments.
2 comments:
Laura, You are truly living one of my favorite bumper stickers,"Think globally, act locally". Uncanny, but you are doing both at the same time.
Love, Dad
I'm currently g chatting with you in South Sudan, receiving e-mails from a co-worker in Belarus, taking phone calls from Iraq...and now calling Sri Lanka.
Just another morning...
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